Cartridges!

[Flojomojo]

"Keep the 80s vibe alive by collecting CARTRIDGES, CALCULATOR WATCHES, and TAPE PLAYERS."

 

[BassGuitari]

...'kay...

[Zaineb]

What

 

 

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[Skippy B. Coyote]

Forget the calculator watches, what you need is:

 

[mbd30]

This kind of looks like fun, but how many Subway Surfer clones does the world need?

 

[StopDrop&Retro]

Is it just me or were calculator watches way less popular than people seem to remember? I had a couple friends who had them but they were really more of a novelty, even those who had it didn't wear them every day. They made you look like a dork.

[0078265317]

I used to have a couple of calculator watches. Was cool back then.

[Flojomojo]

I'm not sure they were ever "popular," but they were certainly a sign of the times, and nobody wore them before or since. Of course they're dorky!

 

Minion Rush is a fun game and I like it better than Subway Surfers if I could only have one endless runner.

[Flojomojo]

Forget the calculator watches, what you need is:

 

A personal information manager cartridge!

 

Reminds me of the Palm days. Did you see that the brand resurrection company that owns the COLECO mark is also trying to revive Handspring (he brand, not the PDAs). Here's a review of an original Handspring device: http://the-gadgeteer.com/1999/10/05/handspring_visor_deluxe_review/

It measures things in terms of how many emails or addresses it can hold.

[Zaineb]

I knew one kid in elementary school, around second grade I think, who always wore his calculator watch. I thought it was cool, but we were both dorks.

 

 

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[Flojomojo]

I liked my Grand Prix watch. Mine was the one in the middle.

 

[jhd]

One of my teachers in about Grade 5 or 6 (early-1980s) wore a calculator watch. Even then I thought it was rather impractical, but he used it. He was into electronics, gadgets and, so forth -- he had been an electrician before becoming a teacher.

[+thanatos]

Is it just me or were calculator watches way less popular than people seem to remember? I had a couple friends who had them but they were really more of a novelty, even those who had it didn't wear them every day. They made you look like a dork.

 

I wore one every day.

 

Oh yeah, I was a dork...

[Tanooki]

I never had one of those watches, did want one for awhile. Then I wised up and got a black Legend of Zelda nelsonic watch instead (still have one too, it works.) That was far more fun than a calculator that would get confiscated going into class as it enabled cheating.

[Keatah]

People were "supposed" to use these things, and the early budget programs written in basic. Never mind they were more hassle than practical. It was like somebody came up with an image that people were supposed to fit into. Conform to. Like the family of 4 with a dog, 2 cars, and a house in suburbia. Picture perfect! Magazine cover material.

 

A personal information manager cartridge!

Reminds me of the Palm days. Did you see that the brand resurrection company that owns the COLECO mark is also trying to revive Handspring (he brand, not the PDAs). Here's a review of an original Handspring device: http://the-gadgeteer.com/1999/10/05/handspring_visor_deluxe_review/

It measures things in terms of how many emails or addresses it can hold.

[HoshiChiri]

What? You don't have to collect legwarmers, hair crimpers, portable phones, or Rubik's cubes? Who designed this?

[SignGuy81]

I used to have one of these made by Royal, but can't remember which model I had

 

[Tanooki]

See now that's perfect. If I saw that at a goodwill or on some flea market table for a few bucks and it worked I'd buy that and store passwords. To anyone else it would look like outdated junk in a drawer, not the key to all the access they'd ever need. Bonus points if it has a password to access it on start to get to that data.

[zylon]

Never had one of those, but did have this Transformers inspired watch. Mine was blue:

 

http://www.rediscoverthe80s.com/2013/07/totally-rad-wristwatches-of-80s.html

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[enoofu]

Believe the 90's had the 80's carts bet

[Flojomojo]

What? You don't have to collect legwarmers, hair crimpers, portable phones, or Rubik's cubes? Who designed this?

 

The minions made it, of course. And they like what they like.

 

I used to have one of these made by Royal, but can't remember which model I had

 

 

 

At first glance, it looks like a tiny clamshell laptop, like the Pandora or the GPD Win. A closer look reveals that it's not a big high resolution on top, but rather a sticker, and the real screen is the little dim postage stamp on the deck with the buttons. Was the storage space measured in kilobytes?

 

I wouldn't store anything in that ... unless it could play at least three games in addition to looking so puny. :-)

[syn]

See now that's perfect. If I saw that at a goodwill or on some flea market table for a few bucks and it worked I'd buy that and store passwords. To anyone else it would look like outdated junk in a drawer, not the key to all the access they'd ever need. Bonus points if it has a password to access it on start to get to that data.

My buddy found one and learned enough to store names and numbers. I grabbed it, changed the header to say B!tch Boy and placed it back on the table. I didn’t activate the password protection, I'm just a jerk not a dick, and waited. It took a bit for him to figure it out as I wasn't being helpful. I did show him how to set up a password in the end.

[Scotterpop]

Never had one of those, but did have this Transformers inspired watch. Mine was blue:

 

http://www.rediscoverthe80s.com/2013/07/totally-rad-wristwatches-of-80s.html

 

And I had the silver one! It was an awesome distraction in the classroom. This was probably around '84 or so when transforming robot toys were all the rage.

[Tanooki]

 

I wouldn't store anything in that ... unless it could play at least three games in addition to looking so puny. :-)

See perfect. Its so crappy its a turn off.

 

 

And syn. Funny don't blame ya.

[7800fan]

See now that's perfect. If I saw that at a goodwill or on some flea market table for a few bucks and it worked I'd buy that and store passwords. To anyone else it would look like outdated junk in a drawer, not the key to all the access they'd ever need. Bonus points if it has a password to access it on start to get to that data.

 

 

Sega IR 7000 works for that. Do keep in mind a lot of these organizers do not have a backup method other than second battery so if both main and second batteries goes dead, everything is wiped. Flash ROM were expensive and not used in low priced organizers back in the day. Even if you find one with serial port and have the cable to connect to PC, the software are likely written for Windows 9x to XP and the serial driver probably won't work on modern computer. Not that it matters, serial port are extinct anyway, you'd need an old computer to use em.